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David Romanelli

David "Yeah Dave" Romanelli has played a major role in pioneering the modernization of wellness in the United States. He believes wellness and feeling good is so much more than fancy yoga poses, green juice, and tight-fitting clothes. Dave launched his career fusing ancient wellness practices with modern passions like exotic chocolate, fine wine, and gourmet food by creating Yoga + Chocolate, Yoga + Wine, and Yoga for Foodies. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Food + Wine, Newsweek and The New York Times; and his debut book, Yeah Dave's Guide to Livin' the Moment reached #1 on the Amazon Self-Help Bestseller List. Dave's new book launches in Fall 2014 from Skyhorse Publishing. Check out his new show Yeah Dave! brought to you by Scripps Network, the people behind The Food Network, Travel Channel, HGTV, and more. He is a current contributor to Health Magazine, Yoga Journal, and various other publications. Discover more about his journey on www.yeahdave.com.

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1986675 Responseshttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.elephantjournal.com%2F2011%2F08%2Fnepal-3-year-old-child-determined-to-be-real-life-goddess%2FNepal%3A+3+Year+Old+Child+Determined+to+be+Real+Life+Goddess2011-08-04+14%3A54%3A05David+Romanellihttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.elephantjournal.com%2F%3Fp%3D198667 to “Nepal: 3 Year Old Child Determined to be Real Life Goddess”

The whole goddess thing is offensive but not that much different from the way our culture sets up young girls as beauty icons for grown women to aspire to. It seems the patriarchy is cool with female as long as it's not doing anything female – like maturing any way.

I'd add to that: don't strip off the junk only to find different junk. The great irony of the western yoga/alternative spirituality community is that it tends to be made up of very progressive, well educated, postmodern people, who, for good reasons, are extremely skeptical towards the traditional authorities, religions, and hierarchies of their own culture…while looking all over for those of other cultures to idealize. Thus, people who would be horrified by the very notion of someone expecting to be treated with deference simply for being born into a particular race, class, or gender in the west start bowing and scraping and saying "Your Holiness" to people from magical mystical foreign lands who were supposedly born into a particular caste or lineage.